Article Marketing

I tried to make an article and featured some online stores - Online Shopping for Mother's Day Gift.  It was just some sort of a practice and the online stores that I mentioned there are owned by my friends. And guess what, the day after the article was posted, somebody from Canada got interested to one of the products:
[5/6/2011 1:11:45 PM] Bestami: :))
[5/6/2011 1:13:09 PM] Bestami: who made that jewels?
[5/6/2011 1:14:48 PM] michelle:  I Love You Pearls?
[5/6/2011 1:15:06 PM] Bestami: yes i like it
[5/6/2011 1:15:30 PM] Bestami: how can i have it?
[5/6/2011 1:15:38 PM] michelle: they are grown somewhere here in the philippines, in a province here, so you're sure they are real gems.
[5/6/2011 1:17:03 PM] michelle: do you want to talk to the owner? ^^
[5/6/2011 1:17:27 PM] Bestami: yes  do u know him ?
[5/6/2011 1:18:30 PM] michelle: yes, she's my co-teacher :)
[5/6/2011 1:19:25 PM] Bestami: bcz one of my partner jeweller he has a shope in TURKEY
[5/6/2011 1:20:02 PM] Bestami: if she can contact with me  my be we can do business wit her

Three days after, I've received a feedback from the owner of I Love You Pearls:

Jill Pinugu May 9 at 3:48pm Report

Hi teach,

Nagka-chat lng kami ni Bestami..nice and friendly sya pero he wants to see first the pearls before sya kukuha sa kin. Interested sya. Punta sila dito by next month marami ata sya iniisip na business ventures at dito din sila magpapakasal next month :) Thanks sis ha!

Btw, as a sign of my gratitude and appreciation for including me in your article I'd like to send you one Love Pearl to share the experience with you how it feels to harvest your own pearl.... :) Please send me your home address. Happy Mother's Day again! Mwaaaa!!!!

Jill 

 

I'm not after the reward.  I wasn't really expecting anything from that article.  I was just practicing!  But it feels really good knowing that my work produces positive results.  I really hope everything goes well with the two of them.

First VA Job Officially Starts Today

I have received $50 today from the client and I haven't started my tasks yet.  I'm still dumbfounded so I don't know how to start telling the story.  It's the same client who I talked about in my previous post A VA Job Offer Out of the Blue. The client said the $50 is not a part of my monthly fee, he said he sent it to me so I could buy office supplies for our project.  I didn't ask for it.  It's a Chicago-based restaurant business.  I'm still at awe as of this writing.

A VA Job Offer Out of the Blue

Can't believe that just by being in the fb friends list of Jomar Hilario can land you a job. I am yet to attend the VA Manila Seminar on May 28th so, basically, I'm not a VA yet. I must admit that there are many things about this job that I can't learn by myself. But at 12noon today, just as soon as I logged in to my FB account, I received a message from a stranger from Chicago offering a VA job for his restaurant business. I checked his profile and saw that Jomar is a common friend.  We exchanged a few messages and agreed to have a phone conversation.  He said he saw me from Jomar's list of FB friends.  He enumerated the things he wants done for his business and, fortunately, the tasks are doable.  Doable because of what I've learned from the March 19 Breakthrough Seminar and from the Online Mentoring Club.  Now my problem is... I can't name my price :( 
Can't wait for May 28 to come!


 

Number 1 on Yahoo Search Result

Peopleeeee, I can't believe my eyes!  I'm typing this while having classes.  Can't wait til 11pm to make this post.  I'm too excited to wait for 3 more hours  to show this.  Let's Go Virtual blog is number 1 on Yahoo Search Result for the keywords "friendster shutting down" and showed my story Really? Friendster is Shutting Down?

It was just my 5th post and the blog is like around 10 days old.  Again, I'm a newbie on blogging so I don't know if this is something to celebrate about.  I'm happy and getting more and more addicted to blogging.  And my new hobby now is peeking at the stats every now and then lol.

 

Earlier, there was only one set of keywords.  Now there are four!  And they all put me to the number 1 slot *chuckles*

Another Surprise

Just like that button in Google Search: I'm Feeling Lucky

I took a look at the stats of this blog and saw this:

Does this mean somebody google'd the keywords "freedom in your calling" and my blog got hit twice?  How cute is that!Lol.  Sorry, told you I'm shallow!

Gotta go! Class in two minutes.

A Pleasant Surprise

Just a little update on my journey guided by Jomar and this support group.

I just woke up and the first thing I did was turn on the computer and see the stats of the first blog that I ever showed other people aside from this group. And you guessed it right, I got a very pleasant surprise to see that Let's Go Virtual got 80 views yesterday.  It had 60+ views when i slept last night and I was more than contented and happy already.  All I wanted yesterday was to match the 40 views the other day but much to my surprise, it even doubled! All I did was BRAVELY post on my FB wall and ask 3 other friends to also share on their respective walls.  I also posted in an English Online forum and then asked 2 students and a few friends to read my blog.  Then every now and then, I keep on peeking at the stats and rejoice every time the number of views increases. Yes, I'm shallow like that!

 I'm not sure if I'm being exaggerated here for thinking that it's already some sort of an achievement but all I know is I feel I'm having the sense of direction now.  I've been a member of the Online Mentoring Club for more than a month now but I still haven't really done anything; got nothing to show.

I joined the club with the intention of specializing on two things: ESL Online School and Virtual Assistant/Internet Marketing.

1. Status on ESL Online:
    a. Employed under another online school and work there for 8 hours Monday to Friday.
    b. Have private students who deal with me directly.
    c. Provide the services of other online teachers to four online schools (some kind of a mini outsourcing biz).

2.  Status on Virtual Assistant:
     a. Reserved a seat on May 28 Manila seminar.
     b. Got this job order of making TOEIC original lessons but still doesn't know how to deal with it like a professional VA with regards to pricing, payment (if I should ask for an advance payment because this job is definitely not a picnic, I don't want to be swindled). Haven't told anybody about my plans on venturing into the VA world but I consider this job order as a VA work.

I thought merging this two niches would be good.  I think the teachers that I handle have the potential of being good VAs, too.

I plan to make the business side of the ESL Online grow (1c) provide teachers to other online schools and at the same time have my own online school for the private students I handle then add more services like VA, Internet Marketing and all the stuff that Jomar teaches. (@Jomar, I am forever grateful to you for being so generous to us.  I can feel your sincerity in reaching out to as many Filipinos as you can to make their lives better).

I plan to eventually quit the 8-hour job which is killing me in many ways which I talked about in my previous post.  It is also the reason why I can't find the time to do the lessons from the Online Mentoring Club.

I'm getting talkative and emotional again LOL. Gotta hit PUBLISH POST now!

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Find Your Call Then Give It Your All

Early on in life, I have discovered that finding one’s call wasn’t a piece of cake.  It may be easy for some people, but not for me. People who have known me for a long time have always thought that I was a true blue anti-social.  I was a loner, didn’t have activities and my life was a total bore.  Deep inside me, I knew it was because I didn’t know what I wanted to do.  I didn’t have a hobby. I didn’t have what I could call my ‘passion’.

It was in my college days where I wanted to find my own calling.  I was fascinated with the term ‘soul searching’.  I imagined myself going to Tagaytay or to Baguio alone or spend a week or two at the Pink Sister’s Convent.  I was just hearing about these things from other people and thought it was cool.  But unfortunately, I didn’t do anything.   I have always been a passive person.  In my mind, there are so many things that I want to do but I didn’t do anything.  I'd just wait what people would ask me to do then I’d do it. 
I worked in offices and never lasted long.  The bosses were okay and I’m pretty sure they liked me to work longer for them.  They asked me to stay.  Some even called me back after resigning.  Some are still in contact with me.  But I just can’t force myself.  It’s not something that I want to do.

Then came Yohan; my little boy, the love of my life, my anchor and my everything.  And if you’ve read the post before this, he is my emotional ‘why’.  I found a home-based job and stuck to it no matter how tiring and exhausting it was; an online teaching job.  I realized I can’t afford not to provide Yohan his needs.  For more than two years, I was pre-occupied and working so hard to save money for Yohan’s future.

The truth is, I still don’t know if I have already found my calling just because this home-based job that I have now is the only job where I lasted the longest.  From what I know, a ‘calling’ is your vocation; your mission in life; something that you do even without getting paid for it.  The only thing I know is, I want to spend more time with Yohan and at the same time provide everything that he needs.  This may sound selfish, not the typical ‘calling’ that serves other people.  So, maybe I haven’t really found my ‘calling’ yet.  And I feel, the Online Wealth Breakthrough seminar of Jomar was the answer.  I don’t want to sound redundant so please refer to my post My Emotional ‘Why’ to know why the Breakthrough was the answer. 

I remember hearing Bro. Bo talked about the ‘core gift’.  I have been considered by my former bosses as the jack of all trades (probably because I don't know how to say NO when they ask me to do something).  But I must admit I'm a master of none.  I still can't figure out my core gift.  I hope I’m still not hopeless.  But I love working on my own.  I never lasted in an office set-up because I was never comfortable working with other people around me.  I am most comfortable when nobody sees and hears me while doing my job.  I’m a silent worker.  I’m a one-man band.  Thus, I believe that the seminars and the mentoring program by Jomar Hilario are really the ones for me.  I’m not getting any younger so I’m going to give it my best shot and give it my all.

Somehow, I'm going to break through or  "BREAKTHROUGH"

And for the record, I’ve never spent thousands of money on things I feel not necessary.  Getting the one-year Online Mentoring Club and attending the Online Wealth Breakthrough Seminar (and soon, the VA Manila seminar on May 28) are the boldest steps I’ve ever done in my life where I took the initiative myself. 

I’m just at the beginning of this so-called ‘self-discovery’ journey.  I’m still a work in progress and it makes me feel young and excited about life and what it has in store for me.


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